R.S.S.S.F. stands for Rec.Sport.Soccer
Statistics Foundation. It was originally founded as NERSSSF (for Northern
European Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation) in January 1994 by three
regular contributors to the rec.sport.soccer newsgroup, namely, in alphabetical
order, Lars Aarhus, the maintainer of a fabulous archive on Norwegian football,
Kent Hedlundh, the organiser of the annual "RSS-Player
of the Year" vote, and Karel Stokkermans, once regular poster of scores
from (mostly) Eastern European leagues, and current maintainer of the RSSSF
Archive. In the beginning of December 1994, we were joined by DSFS
Vice President and maintainer of the ultimate WWW-page on German football
Bernd Timmermann.
Since December 1994, we have been
making league tables and all other kind of statistical information on football
and its history, which we have been collecting for years, available through
this archive.
Since the introduction of this
WWW-page, RSSSF membership has dramatically increased, as can be seen from
the list below. Clearly the restriction to a specific region had to be
dropped, so the name has been shortened to simply RSSSF, the "Rec.Sport.Soccer
Statistics Foundation". The first four members were joined by Søren
Florin Elbech, organizer of the first
In
Real Life Meeting on May 18, 1997, to form the "Board", which decides
on applications for membership and such issues.
In July 2000, a further 'local'
section was formed with RSSSF
Brazil.
Our major goal is collecting all
kind of statistics, in particular league tables from all over the world,
on football, and making this information available to those sharing our
interest. Moreover, those statistics should be as reliable as possible,
which means that our ultimate goal is to have correspondents from (and
better yet in) the countries involved.
New members are therefore in principle
welcome if:
they can provide continuous coverage
of as yet uncovered competitions;
they can ensure correctness of their
data.
If you have more detailed data on
competitions which are already covered, we may be interested in co-operation;
likewise if you have data which cannot immediately be classified as results
or tables, subject to the discretion of the Board.
If you are interested in becoming
a member, please follow the following procedure:
study the RSSSF
Charter to see whether you can identify with our goals and policies;
check to what extent the data you're
willing to provide are already covered in the archive;
mail Kent
Hedlundh, clearly stating what type of data you want to provide;
supply a sample file with statistics
and mail it to Karel
Stokkermans for inclusion in the archive; this sample file should be
either in ascii (preferred) or html-format.
Your application will then be dealt
with by the Board at its earliest convenience.
We welcome all comments on the
tables in the archive - be it on spelling of club names, additional information,
or simply corrections; please direct them to karel.stokkermans@risc.uni-linz.ac.at.
The RSSSF Board currently consists
of Karel Stokkermans (President), Kent Hedlundh (Vice-President), Lars
Aarhus (Secretary General), Bernd Timmermann (Public Relations Manager),
and Søren Florin Elbech (Chancellor of the Exchequer). Mike Raney
assists Bernd and Søren in their tasks as RSSSF's Liaison Officer.
All current RSSSF Members, in alphabetical
order, together with their e-mail addresses and topics on which they admit
a measure of specialization:
For any question on football statistics,
feel free to select the "closest" specialist from the above list and send
an e-mail. Alternatively, you can mail rsssf-request@topica.com.
Addtionally, former members who
have meanwhile lost e-mail access or the time to contribute to the archive;
they have helped significantly in making the archive what it currently
is:
Keith Barrett
(England)
Piotr Dabrowski
(Poland)
Charl Gerber (Africa)
Henrik Haslund
(Denmark)
Boris Herceg (Croatia)
Jorg Jansen
(Players database)
Mark Jansen
(Belgium, Netherlands)
Tamás Kárpáti
(Hungary,
Italy)
Gurgen Mahari (Armenia, varia)
François Mazet
(Africa,
France)
Danilo Monaco
(Italy, Finland)
Pär Morell
(Sweden, varia)
Jaime Andrés Nieto
(Colombia)
Jotis Panagiotas
(Greece)
Achi Raz (Israel)
Hermenegildo Santisteban
(Mexico)
Alexandre Santos Barros
(Brazil)
Héctor Villa Martínez
(Mexico,
Latin America)
Endre Zsoldos
(Hungary)
About this document Many thanks to RISC-Linz
for making resources available for this archive in the past.
(C) Copyright RSSSF 1999/2001 You are free to copy this document
in whole or part provided that proper acknowledgement is given to the RSSSF.
All rights reserved.
